Doesn't help that work is cancelled and this gives me too much time to get way too informed. Of course, even if I was at school, there is very little to do as the semester is winding down at my school, so I would probably just be online trolling for the facts just like I am here.

1 - Unlike Cherynobyl, the Japanese plant has a containment shell - Cherynobyl did not.

2 - The US delivered the (core coolant) solution <-- thats what your supposed to use, not sea water. Not sure if they got the pumps working at the plant to get the coolant circulating ? They are still using the sea water as the last ditch effort to cool the rods.

Anyway, they now have the best Brains in the world helping out - fingers crossed.

Boy, I go from incommunicado to ubercommunicado in a short interval don't I.

If there is one thing this has done for me, it has increased my Japanese vocabulary by some 20 words in the last three days. Words like fuel rod, meltdown, unprecedented, etc. I have watched more Japanese news in the last 3 days than in the last 3 years easily. The Japanese news is for obvious reasons more up to date. Even some stuff I read this morning seems maybe 8 hours or so behind.

Carp, there are scenarios that that outer shell can be breached. And as I was writing a reply to you, they believe it might be leaking. This is the first time we have had this news.

The US navy offered coolant. The tsunami damaged the pumps that could have pumped this coolant in. They have been using sea water for the last 3 days with improvised pumps. The sea water is a last ditch effort and is why plants are always built near large bodies of water.

They are talking about where the wind is blowing. It is blowing to the north, right over all the people hit by the tsunami. They are still saying only people in a few kilometer area around there are in any real danger.

edit: they have checked and updated. the wind is blowing south from the plant. information is changing and morphing every few minutes.

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